Coastal-trapped waves and wind-driven currents over the continental shelf

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 389-412

  Brink, K H ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alongshore propagation; Coastal oceanography; Ocean current variability; Wind driving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001669770     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fl.23.010191.002133     Document Type: Article

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